It's Official!

I have been waiting to post about our excitement for the upcoming year until the travel itinerary was set. We are hosting an exchange student for the upcoming school year. Her name is Ching-Wen Chen and she goes by Jena. Jena will be arriving August 1st and she will spend the next 10 months with us going to our local high school. She is from Chiayi, Taiwan and she will be turning 17 this summer.
We are so excited to have this opportunity to provide a hopefully amazing experience for her and in turn, we get to learn all about the culture our daughter will be from and learn Chinese too.
It is also neat because we have several friends in Tampa who are currently adopting from Taiwan and it will be great for them to get to learn a little more about the country, culture, etc. We will be bringing her to Louisville this Christmas to meet our families so we are definitely looking forward to that.
With our China wait still at over 2 years away, we thought this was a great opportunity to make another year fly by and do some fun things we always talk about doing but we find excuses not to. We will take her to Cape Canaveral (we have never been), Disney/Universal, get Busch Gardens passes (we haven't renewed ours over 2 years), Key West and hopefully show her as much cool stuff around Tampa that we can.
Wish us luck since we are going from kidless to teenager! We have gotten to know her a little through email and she seems so sweet and fun. She sends us pictures a lot of her and her friends so I hope the transition goes smoothly for her.
I will post some pictures upon her arrival...Welcome Jena!